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Circuit courts are court systems found in several common law jurisdictions, and the term covers three related ideas: a court whose judges travel around a region or country to hear cases in different towns or cities, a court that constitutes an administrative division within a country's judiciary, and a higher-level trial court, for example for felony or indictment offenses. Across the common law world the shared thread is a judicial institution organized around a defined geographic circuit, whether the court travels to that circuit or simply administers it. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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